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  1. Re:Can someone explain to me on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    All concussive occupations are for Entertainment purposes. We could be rid of all the dangerous sports tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost. Military service doesn't apply as it's not regularly concussive.

  2. Re:Experience says you are a noob on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    Stock home equipment in a closet & wireless is a start, but heat's then the issue. Changing your house is the worst option since it hurts resale & forces you to redo it in the next place.
    - Using a SATA NAS instead of a server uses a cool ARM chip.
    - Plug computers as servers do a lot with little heat.
    - Those on a budget can use a rootable Android phone similarly. Their battery backup is built-in. Laptops do the same.

  3. Re:Sonic screwdriver in Dr. Who is actually MAGICA on Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver a Step Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    You just described the backdrop of the RedAlert game series, including splitting the atom being the catalyst of new tech that we would have had at present day.

  4. Re:This ship may very well haunt itself on Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II · · Score: 1

    Strangely, that's what they said about the first Titanic: Titan-like, as in the Greek gods that were killed-off by the better ones that now run Greek mythology. It's like they were inviting ancient doom.

  5. Re:Local impact = climate change? on New Study Suggests Wind Farms Can Cause Climate Change · · Score: 1

    you forgot solar. what does that do?

  6. Re:my question is on China Plans National, Unified CPU Architecture · · Score: 1

    Thank you. It looks like ARM should worry. I wouldn't scale to 100s of cores as the article says, but to more caches that are perhaps addressable.

  7. Re:Open Source Backdoors? on China Plans National, Unified CPU Architecture · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cryptographically. Windows requiring EFI is using cryptography to lock out Mac, BSD, & Linux because motherboard manufacturers will only let the cryptographically-right OS run. Extend that to incoming network requests and done.

  8. Re:"increased goodwill from users"? on Why eBook DRM Has To Go · · Score: 1

    An $80 cheap Android tablet with a big SD card is exactly what you describe. The content is trickier, because you need a PC with handbrake for your DVD ripping, or use at-home wifi to run a torrent program on Android if you want. Not only is the device cheaper than the DVD player it replaces, but the touch screen can put up with kids better.

  9. Re:Video Streaming on IEEE Vet: Carriers Capping LTE Services To Avoid Fixed-line Cannibalization · · Score: 1

    This is why Wireless will always have a decent chance to beat hardwired access: more providers. A tower, permits, "minimal" hardware investment, and a backbone connection and you're a (poor) ISP. The bandwidth of a fiber optic cable may be huge, but it only goes to one monopolistic, throttling destination.

  10. Re:Honest curiosity on Police Forensics Team Salvage Blind Authors' Inkless Novel Pages · · Score: 1

    Agreed! I'm in my 20s and still learned most of my speed typing from a high school typewriter. And I live in one of the big IT centers of the world.

  11. Lobbying on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    Efforts to simplify are stopped by huge lobbies. Lobbies also create the millions of loopholes that get rich "special interests" the discounts they want.

  12. Re:Sony's war on their customers on Sony Projects Record Losses of $6.4 Billion · · Score: 1

    Best? I'm glad each field has became specialized into their own unique winners. It prevents monopoly that way. I go for Vizio TVs, Viewsonic displays, Motorola Phones (for standing up against MS), Nikon SLR cameras, Build your own PC, Toshiba computer-like things, and anything Logitech makes because it's unbreakable.

  13. Re:Sony's war on their customers on Sony Projects Record Losses of $6.4 Billion · · Score: 1

    Sony & Microsoft are against interests & boycotted. Sony's collapse involves choices Microsoft shares: undermidning standards, misunderstanding Premium, 1000 departments making alright stuff all at risk from the few evil ones, monopoly-or-bust mentality.
    Sony's collapse will educate us on how to "help along" Microsoft.

  14. Re:OCB Mode is Toxic. on Mosh: Modernizing SSH With IP Roaming, Instant Local Echo · · Score: 1

    Is this a joke? Have you noticed how much Apple approves of patents, the ultimate anti-freedom license?

  15. Re:written/recorded form on Major Textbook Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up · · Score: 1

    Agreed!

  16. Re:thoughts on Update On Wayland and X11 Support · · Score: 1

    I thought X11 network transparency (now that toolkits forward whole bitmaps to X) basically are VNC.

  17. Re:Wayland is a huge step backwards. on Update On Wayland and X11 Support · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the "Extinguish" involve breaking support for while not providing source code? That doesn't apply
    What about "Extend", which protocol is getting extended here, exactly?

  18. Re:Wayland vs X on Update On Wayland and X11 Support · · Score: 1

    GTK offers HTML5 as a backend. Network transparency at the toolkit level is what X11 intended (with it as the toolkit). You can't get much less chatty than an HTML5-forwarded app in terms of existing standards.

  19. Actually it's easy on Update On Wayland and X11 Support · · Score: 2

    A compositor plug-in can track changes & present this using VNC server protocol. It doesn't exist yet because it's not the focus, but it's fairly easy. Then the VNC Client under Wayland works like most any other client. Someone started on it for a Google Summer of Code project last year, but didn't finish.

  20. Re:There is no COULD hamstring... on Dysfunctional Console Industry Struggles For New Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    My understanding is they lose serious money on new consoles. So no education necessary. They take the hit for new consoles, then no one buys games.

  21. Re:Are you sure YOU understand the audience? on PlayStation 4 'Orbis' Rumors: AMD Hardware, Hostile To Used Games · · Score: 1

    The problem is the audience. Children share by nature.
    - They share their iOS games by bringing their device to a friend's house.
    - They share their laptop for Steam games. Anyone with a high-end Desktop is likely an Adult.

    Sony's push will lose word-of-mouth encouragement of new systems & games. It will also lose the rental market.

  22. Re:Let the baby keep it, he/she needs it on Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? · · Score: 1

    Exactly! This is how you keep them healthy. Think about it, breastfed baby's don't get Iron so they need every drop they can get.

  23. Their own measure on Ask Slashdot: What Defines Success In an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    Firefox's goal is to have an open web, not to be first in the browser market or even have a single user. Open Java's goal wasn't to have any usage of their product, but to threaten to enough to open the main (then Sun's) Java implementation.
    If corporations were legally responsible to their charter (rather than maniacal about profit), the world may see successes that are equally as good for society.

  24. Already done. on A Hybrid Car With Detachable Engine Proposed · · Score: 1

    Regenerative breaking already charges in motion. Small welding generators on trailers exist just fine. Per Disney's Cars movie, a Tesla Roadster can pull the trailer just fine.

  25. Re:This makes me sad on Graphics Rendering Patent Suits Target Apple, Samsung, HTC, RIM, LG and Sony · · Score: 1

    Let me give it a try (no shudder necessary):
    Android (& Linux in server rooms) has a healthy set of varieties around a common platform, like DOS did with DRDOS, etc
    It runs on a variety of hardware made from various vendors like LG, Samsung, HTC, etc and many smaller vendor/resellers, like DOS did.
    Anyone without prejudice can write apps for it, similarly but better than DOS had.
    DOS was Microsoft's greatest growing period, yet now Android's moderninity competes head-to-head with Apple's offerings. Where it lacks it wins on price, like DOS did against Apple years ago.
    It sounds like a better-for-society place to be in all respects.

    As for IBM, it sells thousands of products to businesses. It's free of any real "core product" (except Websphere which is more of a programming environment with support) allowing it to buy & sell branches far more easily. A world without IBM has no large businesses as they're already there and adaptable. Considering how much everything's going toward big business, a world without IBM is only possible if we return to an all-agrarian society.